subsequent blood loss
the vulnerability needs assistance in getting out of bed
perhaps it indulged in too much wine last night
empathy celebrated throughout early morning
rumor that the war had died finally
oh hell, the war is always threatening to die
we make plans to celebrate and order in food and drink
but somehow that war just moves to another neighborhood
and starts to strut its shit all over again with a different
set of actors
empathy can celebrate all it wants
but when it crawls out of bed the next morning...
isn't there an empathy that can eclipse war?
apparently not so but subsequent blood loss does
lead to a lightening of the heavy heart
people stand up very very tall and blot out the sun
i wish there were shorter people standing up
the sun would find me again then
and it wouldn't go on like this, so cold, so futile
you asked for futile, someone snarls
no, i said fertile, you weren't listening...
everyone has gone off somewhere now.
some of them maybe even to sleep
i'd put on some music but it might wake you up
you don't really want to wake up now do you
the war outside is pretty loud and
if i woke you up by putting on my music
you'd have to hear it and maybe even see it
and that would just get you distraught and mad.
maybe i should just pack it in myself
the bed looks comfortable
just a few inches to get to it
but sometimes those few inches are
very animate and garrulous
they feel if they keep singing
it will keep the war from them
well if you can't tell futile from fertile
what good do you expect to come out of all this noise
upstairs a man and a woman can either fight or make love
it all depends on their moment and what lives in them
subsequent blood loss reveals that men who flossed
had a better chance at...
on some corner
where the weather is not discipline
the skin raises a white flag
but it just becomes a phase of the moon
and the dance
stumbles determinedly
forward
Scott
8/27/02 |
